Attention Jedi’s … Star Wars Lightsabers Have Finally Been Invented

 

May the force be with you …

How cool is this, The Guardian is reporting that scientists have discovered how to make a lightsaber. Well, at least the technology for the light aspect of the saber, it appears they still need to build the actual weapon and produce the THHHHHHWWWWOM sound made when wielding a lightsaber.

Wannabe Jedi Knights rejoice, for scientists have discovered that the famous lightsaber weapon wielded by Luke Skywalker and his ilk in the long-running space opera saga might one day exist beyond the realms of fiction.

Harvard and MIT physicists writing in the new edition of Nature say they have discovered a way to bind photons together in order to form a new molecule which behaves almost exactly like George Lucas’s deadly devices.

“Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless and do not interact,” said Harvard university physics professor Mikhail Lukin. “What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they act as though they have mass, and bind together to form molecules.

Inexplicably, reports suggest that physicists have not yet begun the process of using the technology to build actual lightsaber-style weapons, nor have they perfected the THHHHHHWWWWOM! sound traditionally manifested when duelling Jedis do battle.

Posted September 30, 2013 by
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    2 Responses to “Attention Jedi’s … Star Wars Lightsabers Have Finally Been Invented”

    1. Patrick in Michigan on September 30th, 2013 12:31 pm

      Well crap. If that don’t go THHHHHHWWWWOM, what’s the point?

      ;)
      _______________
      SM: HA … I think I am going to have to agree.
      R

    2. Patrick in Michigan on September 30th, 2013 12:32 pm

      that = they… more coffee!

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